Daytime Class!
Shake Up Your Photography!
© Kai McBride
Shake Up Your Photography!
© Kai McBride
ONLINE COURSE

Shake Up Your Photography!

Dates: Mondays, March 31–June 2, 2025
Time: 12–2pm (ET)
Sessions: 6 (Class meets on the following dates: March 31; Apr 14, 28; May 12, 19; June 2)
Limited enrollment: 8 students
Fee: $455 $410
Earlybird Special Extended! 10% off selected classes through Friday, Nov 22!

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This class will have you saying, “I never would have made photographs like these, and I love it!” Kai McBride has designed an all new series of prompts that will get you thinking in a fresh way about how you photograph. Whether you are still trying to find your photographic voice or are years into a large body of work, these assignments will challenge your approach to image-making and are guaranteed to knock you out of a creative rut and shake up your photography. Through group critique, we’ll analyze each student’s responses and we’ll seek inspiration by examining the work of a range of photographers. By the end of this class, you’ll be energized and inspired to expand your photographic vision. All fresh prompts, so this class is suitable for those who have taken one of Kai’s Shake-up classes before.

 
Today, sadly, is the last of Kai’s B&W class — it has been great and he’s an excellent teacher. I rejuvenated some of my Photoshop skills which have been dormant and learned a lot.
—Lisa (New York)
I am so glad I signed up for this black and white class. Kai is a wonderful teacher. Not only is he organized, interesting, challenging and creative, but he goes that extra mile to provide us with very helpful handouts and resources! This class is opening up a whole new world to me!
—Barbara (New Jersey)


Kai McBride
Kai McBride

Kai McBride is a photographer, musician, teacher, and avid cyclist who recently uprooted from Brooklyn to sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent the last ten years teaching photography and managing the photo facilities at Columbia University, his alma mater, where he received an MFA in 2008.

Born on the island of Kauai in 1972, by his 18th birthday Kai had lived in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Texas, Oahu, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He sharpened his powers of observation while adjusting to life between suburban ranch-style homes, cabins with no running water, and a 20-foot teepee in the field of a commune.

His photographs have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions, and are held in public and private collections. His first monograph, About Face: Picturing Tampa, was published by SPQR Editions in Fall 2016.

Kai teaches black and white photography, photobooks, and more for StrudelmediaLive.